1995.2023 Text on work

(2022-2-23) ‘Between Aruba and the Netherlands I found Paradise’. (25.11.2022- undefined time). Blue Horese. This work is a lease-lend invitation at the National Archeological Museum Aruba (MANA), Oranjestad Aruba. The sleeping horse, broken in two, of which one half has the shield of Aruba and the other half the shield of the Netherlands, captures attention to the cultural rupture that took place during the colonization process. The triangular commerce route from the 16th to the 18th centuries between Europe, Africa and America (particularly the Caribbean) formed an economic enterprise. At the same time this interfered and broke the way of life and culture of people involved in displacement and slavery. “Islas Inutiles”, or Useless Islands was the given name.  However, it is through the division sand reconnections that the new identities and cultures of today were formed. We are still dealing with the consequences of colonization, and the artwork accentuates the hybrid aspect of ex-colonies. At the same time it illustrates the cultural disconnection and the lack of understanding that is still going on today. Colonies of the past and political structures of the present are still connected and separated by the immense blue sea. In the artwork, personal narratives as a child of mixed parents (Dutch and Aruban) and the national narratives, like the Apart Status of Aruba in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are explored and they scream for dialogue, art as the symbol of the effort of a Caribbean nation to understand its own history and to have its own voice. Subsidized by National and International foundations and prestigious private institutions. Mondriaan Fund, Unoca, PBCF.  Artwork ‘In between Aruba and Holland I found Paradise – mixed media, variable dimensions. (2022-2023) one life size horse sculpture made of plaster, blue acrylic, 4 sculpt ear objects, plaster and digital print in gold leave paper. 2 meter  x  80cm  x 1.50meter. Blue Horses: NAMA – National Archeological Museum Aruba. Oranjestad, Aruba. Horse Power  (Dec.2013-March.2014). Blue Horses: Exhibition ‘Tropical Kingdom, 200 years of Kingdom, at Museum the Fundatie , Zwolle, The Palace on Blijmarkt, Netherlands.

2020.2023 / Newpresentfreedom(1912.2022) Freeflow.5LiQUIDnarratives.~
Birds of Paradise’ A new language – mixed media, variable dimensions. (2019-2020-2021-2022-2023). Rewriting time and space,
reconstructing a new language. Made during COVID and installed in my studio. Birds of  Paradise (2019.2022). A new language.
The general theme on the work is analyzing identity by deconstructing and reconstructing space and time. Rewriting and healing historical, generational and national wounds and traumas. Through this journey, i met my ancestors, Saints,  reality eyes and passionate ears, love and kindness, i healed deep wounds, met a new language, a new tribe, new time and space.  Title of works. (2019.2022). I am not alone – mixed media, variable dimensions (2019- 2022),carbon paper, ink, black charcoal. 21.5cm x 27.9cm. Ancestors – mixed media, variable dimensions (2020.2022). plaster and acrylic, 1.20 meter x 50 cm x 50 cm. Ancestors – mixed media, variable dimensions (2019.2022). digital print of self image layers merged foreground shots of Euphemia Muyale van Heusden (mother) and Greto Simplicio Muyale (father). Ancestors. mixed media, variable dimensions (2020.2022). plaster, sculpture ears in plaster, perforated body part on mannequin, acrylic. 1.80 meter x 45cm x 50cm. Ancestors – mixed media, variable dimensions (2020.2022). plaster and acryl. 1.80 meter x 45cm x 50cm. Ancestors. mixed media, variable dimensions (2020.2022). plaster, sculpture ears in plaster, bodypart of mannequin, acryl. 1.80 meter x 45cm x 50cm. Whispers – mixed media, variable dimensions (2019.2022). drawings on canvas and wall. water color. wall space 2.10 meter x 2.30 meter. Ancestors – mixed media, variable dimensions (2020.2022). inkt on paper 25 x 25 x 4 cm.  Ancestors – mixed media, variable dimensions (2019.2022). plaster. 25 x 25 x 4 cm. Gost with a soul -. mixed media, variable dimensions. (2015.2022). plaster, acrylic. 2. meter x 80cm x 1.50.meter. Mapping my body –  mixed media, variable dimensions (1995.2022). Hair, 62x33x13cm. Mapping my body – mixed media, variable dimensions (2019.2022). mannequin body parts,  pen. 64 x 24x 24cm. Mapping my body – mixed media, variable dimensions (2019.2022).

2021. Zeitgeist / New Silence An orientation on Human Ecology and Frequency. ‘I am a fish, a plant, a human, a horse’ The history of water guides the soul’s passage to the milky way.Human body is 70 percent of water and water is able to memorize and transport information. Words are an expression of the soul and have influence.
The individual and society make up an enormous ocean. By adding our individual drops to this ocean, we participate in the formation of society.
The space that grief, generates its mark by the absence of words.

2019.2020.  Not Alone, New Silence . Human Ecology, a research on, ‘The Allegory of the Cave’, presented by the Greek philosopher Plato’s cave (514a-520a)
To equate the effect of education on ecology verses interpersonal archetype frequencies.(2019/2020).

2017.2018 Mare Nostrum (22 September 2017- 8 April 2018)
Maczul – Museo Arte Contemporaneo Zulia Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Antiguo Templo de San Isidro, La Sabana de Maracaibo, Venezuela

Concept : A sea of dreams is part of an ongoing project called ‘only beautiful words’ It investigates the relationship in between time, space and memory, representing a catalyst, suggesting public communication, community solidarity and collective consciousness. A Restoration of a typical Dutch dressed in a Volendam costume at La Plaza Antillean, la Vela del Coro, Estado Falcon Venezuela. The  Ancient Antilles in 1879. Formation of the historic center declared as  the Cultural Institute of Humanities in 1993. The main situation of the Plaza Antillana was influenced by the Dutch and Antillean. This identification permits the importance of the Venezuelan and world economy from the end of XIX century . (Ref. Catalog of Cultural Venezuelan heritage ( 2004-2005). The Dutch dressed in a Volendam costume at La Plaza Antillean, la Vela del Coro, Estado Falcon Venezuela was made to a honor of a prosperous, dynamic commercial relationship exchange with Holland, the Caribbean and Venezuela. Precious goods like among others plants. With the independence and conquest of the republic these relations continued their course reaching the present time, a time full of new challenges to review these historical processes, from the past and the present. Sub concept: Precious goods. Based on a dialogue with plants.
Plants are mainly multi cellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom of Plantae. Contemporary capitalism, postindustrial society,  postmodern language. The history of  plants are  sustainable traces human- dominated ecological systems from the earliest civilizations to the present time.  This history is characterized by the increased regional success of a particular society, followed by crises that were either resolved, producing sustainability, or not, leading to decline. Sustainability is studied and managed over many scales (levels or frames of reference) of time and space from the total carrying capacity(sustainability) of planet Earth to the sustainability of economic sectors, ecosystems, countries, municipalities, and in many contexts of environmental, social and economic organization. The focus ranges neighborhoods, home gardens, individual lives, individual goods and services occupations, lifestyles, behavior patterns and so on. In short, it can entail the full compass of biological and human activity or any part of it.

Maczul – Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Zulia (22 September 2017- 8 April 2018)
Text by Mr.Juan Bracho, Bachelor in Education Mention Social Sciences and  Master of Science  in History of Venezuela, from the University of Zulia.
Researcher at the Experimental Center for Latin American Studies: “Dr. Gastón Parra Luzardo “(CEELA) and the Center for Historical Studies
(L.U.Z.). Currently, holds a PhD in Human Sciences at the University of Zulia.

Osaira Muyale is inspired by the iconic Plaza Antillana (Antillana square) from La Vela de Coro, where it is, looking towards Aruba and Curaçao, the sculpture “Mujer Holandesa” (Dutch Woman), dressed in a Vollendame suit and a walkway with klompen (well-known wooden shoes in Hispano-America as “Suecos”), holds in its arms a tulips bouquet representing the Netherlands wealth.Originally on the pedestal rested small replicas of the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, which were removed in an act of unconsciousness. On its side is the old customs building, whose structure is strongly marked by Dutch architectural currents of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This square was financed by the Netherlands government at the end of the 60s as a tribute to the turbulent relations existing between the Venezuelan people, formerly Hispanic colony, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands present in the extinct Netherlands Antilles. Even though this sculpture is loaded with meaning symbolism, it is notorious the little documentation existing around this place, the anonymity of the sculptor and the population disinterest in terms of historical and artistic representation. This leads us to infer that the “Dutch Woman” is really a tribute to non official relationships, that is, illicit commercial relationships that join our peoples in everyday life, so this monument is an important silent witness of history, but at the same time is relegated in the memories of the people. In the work, Muyale focuses on the sculpture replica “Dutch Woman”, projected in intense blue that resembles the Caribbean Sea heart, from the klompen starts a spiral that covers a large part of the installation, touching, in the background, the expanded reproduction of the Vela de Coro customs building. In the essence of the spiral, the artist manages to combine two aspects of great social and personal relevance; on one hand, historical irreverence, revealing the need to analyze centuries of history hidden in the bowels of government, which mutilate the historical memories of our societies; on the other hand, the origin of his Dutch and Lebanese family, his ancestors pilgrimage through the Caribbean, and the passion of his father for the memorable breeding of horses in Aruba. Thinking on our Caribbean, is not just imaging its exuberant landscapes and material riches, but also the humans and their history, who in their geography have articulated the social space that is expressed in the Caribbean reason, constituted by the multiplicity of cultures that look towards the Caribbean Sea. The native ethnic groups mixture, the African brought as slaves and the Western-European world, have inherited to us a complex and abundant cultural network, manifesting themselves “civilized” in the religions, languages, traditions, customs and official histories, functional to satisfy the political-religious needs of the states; in the same way, the “ordinary” expressions that are in the historical silences of the memories, that survive in our daily lives, and even today are contrary to the imposed “civilization”. In this lies the imperative need to understand the Caribbean as a social space, with a diversity of identities that converge in the spatial, merging –along the time – our fragmented cultures. In this sense, the understanding of our cultures must be subject to an historical analysis that allows us to visualize the process that led to our social realities as peoples in the Caribbean, energized by economic and political activities, whose actions influence the complex cultural background. This would be the first step to reveal our historical wounds, from the imposition of dividing borders in our common space, to the popular expressions rejected by the western worldview; for that reason, only from the culture and the strong artistic manifestations, contextualized in a tangible reality, can begin to reveal the historical silences of our memories. As an act of centennial and even millennial rebellion, the Aruban artists Osaira Muyale, Ryan Oduber, Glenda Heyliger and Elvis López, through the Mare Nostrum exhibition face the need to rediscover our history within the diversity of identities that characterize us, facing a rigid history that has separated of from each other, when in fact we are all! In this journey, it will be essential to approach the ancestral human relations in the Caribbean, our indigenous, European and African ancestors that, in whose daily work they forge in time the current Caribbean social scenario overshadowed by history, the understanding of this contributes to the artistic exposition of Mare Nostrum. The indigenous Caribbean From the blue morning twilights to the reddish sunsets, the colors that paint the Caribbean horizon are diverse. To the east emerges the bent spine of the Antilles, whose islands make their way to the Atlantic Ocean, Europe and Africa; to the west the firm coast with its beaches, gulfs, bays, rivers and littorals represent a splendid refuge. These maritime, insular and terrestrial spaces were articulated by the Anahuac indigenous families (Tainos, Caquetíos, Wayuu) and the Caribes who, by means of extraordinary navigational skills, their original ecological harvest systems, the marine and terrestrial resources exploitation, the consolidation of the “cacicazgos” (indigenous governments) and the consequent stability of their peoples (cultures, customs, traditions) allowed their domains consolidation. In these circumstances, relations in the southern Caribbean were controlled by the Caquetío people, expanding their “cacical” (indigenous government) control from Paraguaná to the actual interior western of Venezuela (Sanoja, 2011; 2013), and northward to the islands of Aruba Curaçao and Bonaire; allowing commercial, social and cultural flow from the interior of the coast to the heart of the sea. Towards the 15th century, the improvement of navigation techniques and political – cultural control of the region, led the Caribbean social space to propitiate -undoubtedly- the ethnic relations (peaceful or warlike) with the developed region of Central America and with the rest of the Antilles; This would outline the islands as control centers for the indigenous hegemony over the sea, whose spatial articulation is the fundamental origin of the European settlements that began to be imposed in these territories at the end of the 15th century. European capitals control the Caribbean Sea, the islands and Tierra Firme.In Europe, the emergence of mercantile capitalism on the feudal regime during the 15th century, generated the search for new trade routes to the traditional suppliers of Asian goods, India and China, promoting exploratory trips sponsored by the Iberian kingdoms of Spain and Portugal (Puiggrós, 2005). Reason why the contact with the rich lands currently known as America, supplied the existing commercial needs and, in response to their political, imperial and market interests promoted the occupation – appropriation of the lands “discovered and undiscovered” together with their seas. During this process, the sea and Caribbean islands played a fundamental role as operation bases for the installation of the political-administrative institutions of the Hispanic government, and their progressive expansion into the interior of the continental lands; they also served as military centers for the protection of conquered and unconquered territories (Ramos, 1978). In the case of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, islands that despite their small population and lacking resources for survival, were strategic for the Hispanic control of a large part of Tierra Firme since their small ports served as a link for the landing of supplies on the coast of Paraguaná, propitiating the foundations of Coro, la Vela, Maracaibo and El Tocuyo (Nectario María, 1959; 1967), becoming part of the imperial economic gear between the ports of Hispaniola, Cuba, Veracruz, Santa Marta, Cartagena de Indias and Portobelo. Meanwhile, the English, French and Dutch economies operate in order to conquer territories in America, for the establishment of commercial branches in response to the new commercial variant existing between the Iberian Peninsula and America; this explains the Dutch occupation of the islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire by the Company of the West Indies during the first half of the 17th century (Fundación Polar, 1988). This situation that allows the strategic alliance between Dutch merchants, most of them Sephardic, and indigenous islanders, beginning commercial relations with the indigenous people who lived in the Hispanic Tierra Firme territories that, taking advantage of  political-administrative conjuncture, used their ancestral knowledge and skills in the autochthonous terrain for their fair benefit against the Hispanic invader. This new stage of relations (between Dutch, sephardic and indigenous) leads to the commercial exchange of raw materials extracted from the Spanish colonies, such as palo de brasil, dividivi, añil, hides, precious metals, tallow, tobacco, sugar, cotton, in the same time it was placed in the hands of indigenous people and settlers, weapons, gunpowder, ammunition, liquors and excellent horses raised on the Aruba island (Moreno, Tarazona, 1984, González, 1997, Oquendo, 2001). Similarly, the imperial piracy policy was established by Netherlands, England and France, whose ships constantly attacked the Spanish ports and Tierra Firme, as well as the commercial fleet, whose objective will be to directly and indirectly induce the commercial sabotage and undermine the Spanish political structure. For that reason in 1772 the provincial authorities request the governor and the New Kingdom of Granada general captain, to repair the coastal fortifications in the presence of foreign powers indicating, the “[…] precise need to strengthen this coast, because it should be regarded as a key to these Indies, and for being today surrounded by foreigners […] the Dutch by the San Eustaquio islands, Sava, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and Suriname ” (Briceño, 1965). With the Utrecht (1713) and Rastadt (1714) agreements the control of the American gold, the African slave trade -and the commercial routes in general- are strengthened, making a wide range of contraband and piracy more complex, consolidating the Caribbean as a sea of Foreign relations, while the majority of the Antilles become colonial enclaves of Dutch, French and English, in this way begins the progressive closure for Spain of the hegemony that it possessed in its European and American enclaves (Vázquez, 1986). In response to mercantile needs, the European powers, through the geopolitical game, provoked the need to initiate the independence process in the Hispanic- American colonies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, leading to the creation of new republics and new trading partners, whose economies will be clearly committed to Holland, France and especially England. Nowadays, the inherited borders of Hispanic, French, English and Danish administrative policies continue to separate and making invisible the ancestral relations that join us for the very fact of living in our Caribbean, condemning to silence the daily “illicit” relations that are maintained spontaneously.

Mare Nostrum. Today the Caribbean is passion and fervor that has fused history into cultural diversity, religions, languages, flavors, colors, histories, customs, traditions and those memories that lie in memories. In the same way, it is represented in social, economic and political crises that put at risk the very essence of being, converting culture and its artistic expressions into criticism and rebellion acts. In this sense, the artist Ryan Oduber shows in the work “Transgeneración”, two boats joined together with a rope or cord and covered by picturesque “chinchorros” (hammocks) from the Wayuu ethnic group, belonging to the Anahuac family; In the work, the artist recreates the ancestry of our indigenous and their roots anchored in the Caribbean, also the people wrecked dreams. The two boats are tied sailing in their tasks, their labors, their dreams, but in the turbulence or during the crisis they can, if they decide so, separate by releasing the knot that ties them; This symbolizes some societies problems, during the turbulence the people in the boats are in danger, the shipwreck of a boat can cause the collapse of the other one, creating chain reactions that affect our people or to neighboring villages. For thousands of years our indigenous have gone out in the early morning to till the land and sail the sea waters, teaching their children the trades, assisted by the phrase “look how I do it”; at night, and lying in the “chinchorros” (hammocks) complement the transmission of wisdom, reaffirming what has been learned during the day to rest after that, taking refuge in the safety of their beds to repair the body strength and mind, where their dreams obey intuition in the revelation of the future. By her part, Osaira Muyale is inspired by the iconic Plaza Antillana (Antillana square) from La Vela de Coro, where it is, looking towards Aruba and Curaçao, the sculpture “Mujer Holandesa” (Dutch Woman), dressed in a Vollendame suit and klompen (well-known wooden shoes in Hispano-America as “Suecos”), holds in its arms a tulips bouquet representing the Netherlands wealth. Originally on the pedestal rested small replicas of the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, which were removed in an act of unconsciousness. On its side is the old customs building, whose structure is strongly marked by Dutch architectural currents of the 18th and 19th century. This square was financed by the Netherlands government at the end of the 60s as a tribute to the turbulent relations existing between Venezuela, formerly Hispanic colony, and the Kingdom of Netherlands present in the extinct Netherlands Antilles. Even though this sculpture is loaded with meaning symbolism, it is notorious the little documentation existing around this place, the sculptor anonymity and the population disinterest in terms of historical and artistic representation. This leads us to infer that the “Mujer Holandesa” (Dutch Woman) is really a tribute to non official relationships, that is, illicit commercial relationships that join us in everyday life, so this monument is an important silent witness of history, but at the same time is relegated in the memories of the people. In the work, Muyale focuses on the sculpture replica “Mujer Holandesa” (Dutch Woman), projected in intense blue that resembles the Caribbean Sea heart, from the klompen starts a spiral that covers a large part of the installation, touching, in the background, the expanded reproduction of La Vela de Coro customs building. In the spiral essence, the artist manages to combine two aspects of great social and personal relevance; on one hand, historical irreverence, revealing the need to analyze centuries of history hidden in the bowels of government, which mutilate the historical memories of our societies; on the other hand, the origin of his Dutch and Lebanese family, his ancestors pilgrimage through the Caribbean, and the passion of his father for the memorable breeding of horses in Aruba. Meanwhile, Glenda Heyliger shows three bicycles connected to several first aid kits, in which when pedaling it generates enough energy to light four bulbs that represent the urgent need to recover human sensitivity, the help between humans, the mutual cooperation and respect for life that has been so transgressed. In the same way, the work “Soy Sal” generates great commotion when observing in the ground a small hill of salt where several crosses are nailed, representing the passage of slaves, men, women and children ripped from their African world and marketed by Holland centuries ago, brought to the Caribbean lands where most of them died and others managed to live, contributing to forge with their foreheads sweat and the blood of their backs our diverse culture. Elvis López shows us the virgin Mary with bandaged wounds, hurt by our actions, our indifference, our indolence; she is standing on several white garbage bags that simulate the unity between the sea and the land as a same space without borders that is contaminated by human abuses; from the ceiling hang several objects that simulate clouds trying to heal the wounds of the virgin and our mental, sentimental, corporal wounds. Next to it there is a mural full of faces without names, next to a supermarket cart full of clouds that represent the effort of people to achieve their goals, but they do not achieve them because of the conditions imposed by the world market system, understood as social, economic, political, racial, religious and metal crises, not far from our realities. Apart from the limitations and political-administrative legislations, the Caribbean and its people have been thought and rethought over the centuries, without being able to understand that the space is articulated by human actions and not by governmental impositions. In this lies the relevance of these works, whose main contribution is to reveal the Caribbean historical problem, by manifesting the critical and hidden fragments of our processes; In the same way, the concept and essence of the works transcend the past towards the current situations of our peoples, influencing the actions, expressions and representations of artists that seek to make sense of their own identities.

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2018 2017. Bleau garden
Title of work:  ‘SAN NICOLAS’ (Saint Nicolas)
Solo exposition. Dream time Stories of a Saint of sailors, children and researchers, Human nature in conversation with  time.
A dialogue on  historical and contemporary research.

2016-2017/ Solo exposition. A dialogue on  historical and contemporary research. The artwork  ‘SAN  NICOLAS’ (Saint Nicolas) is a follow up research and extension of  a community art project ‘The Bleau Garden’ installed at B.v/d Veen Zeppenfeld straat 6, San Nicolas. This artwork  installation took place parallel with the art fair event during the 16^th until the 18^th of September 2016. This installation spoke about the sense of familiar, informal exchange of ideas, heart to heart conversations on everyday‘s life, cultural boundaries, passionate spirituality, unfamiliar cultural borders and a complex historical Caribbean community. The story represented a family and their children that immigrated from Dominica,1850 Mr.and Mrs. John Bleau and Clemant Bleau Noel parents of Mr. Augustin Bleau (6.6.1909 -17.4.1983) married to Mrs Pamelia Abrahams (18.7.1922-17.7.1962). Daughter Lilian Blue (17.7.1962). Mr.Augustin Bleau left Dominica during 1923, as a young boy of 14. He traveled for a new future and immigrated in Aruba as a British citizen. Mr.Bleau, a man of not many words with an entrepreneurial culture, with a positive and progressive spirit, thinking big and reading Time magazine, soon made financial risk in hope of profits buying a building on B. v/d Veen Zeppenfeldstraat 6 in the centrum of San Nicolas, Aruba. Mr.Augustin Bleau was self made business man. His moto was “e pais cu ta dunabo di come b mester repete” You should respect the country who provides you with food ’. Dominica, 1850 Family Mr.and Mrs. John Bleau and Clemant Bleau, Family photograph courtesy of Mrs. Lilian Bleau – grand daughter. 

Invitation In 2017 Art curator and art critic  Renwick Heronimo, FMA Fundacion muceo Arubano- project   ‘San Nicolas Aesthetic.San Nicolas (Saint Nicolas).Continuing the research on the concept of ‘San Nicolas’, I found out that San Nicolas is a saint that protects the sailors, children and researchers. I believe it was a magic concept because San Nicolas’s community is passionate on religion, spirituality and beautiful historical stories between the ocean and the sky. San Nicolas was a very well known saint all over the world and in Aruba to. I immediately wanted to create a magic garden, a place where human nature can go in conversation with time. Renwick introduced me with the space I could make this dream come true. I started  to measure my idea and mostly the idea is larger in fantasy than the space available. In the mean time the idea started talking to me; a Saint in conversation with the invisible and the voiceless. A name representing human nature.  A story, of a tree that loves his dog so much that it asked its leaves to give birth to a flower.  A flower that would protect the dog from rain, sun and strong winds. Each one of the leaves said, yes‟ we will bare a flower together with a choir of birds that will also bare fruits for a hundred years of harvest and a hundred more to take care of the dog as the tree cares for its leaves. The tree graciously danced for the dog. The leaves took the dog carefully by the branches, to an old branch that by the years turned into gold. A branch that could stretch to the far sea, where you could see children waiting on the ships to pass by. The tree, the dog and its beautiful flower kept staring on top of the golden branch to see the Sun rise as it kept them looking at its beauty forever and ever…….

2016-2017. The artwork  ‘SAN  NICOLAS’ (Saint Nicolas). Human nature in conversation with  time Memory can experience past, present and future dreams. What experience or knowledge is stored in long-term memory can be retrieved again. Memories are texts and pictures in the mind and as such form part of the declarative memory. Art has the ability to bend, angle, flex, curve, hook, loop shift, tack, turn twist, time. Slow it down and wander through it.  That is precisely why Art provides a framework within which we can look at time. Time is something of daily life much at once. We look constantly at the clock, masterly imposing our lives, pushing forward and tracking collectively, running like clocks, marking what to do, and what it exactly makes us escape. In time everything rotates around time. We hardly think about how time is a mirror of Being.  There were not always clocks, calendars and seconds. There was only one way where one watched time trough, ‘Nature. The sun coming up every day and going down again, the seasons change, the plants grow. Little more than a circle, repeating of events. This rhythm is increasingly framed and named. A system established in words, terms and standards.  Time is a wonderful thing and in my eyes something that we will never fully get a grip on. The system of years, days, seconds, clocks and calendars is not time. Even the time of a moment, that we often think is a flexible notion, is set at 90 seconds to be exact. All these developments are just an attempt to grasp the sense of the circle of time. For the clock may say that only 7even minutes have passed and the truth is that 200 years have gone by. 2016-2017/ Dream time Stories of a Saint of sailors, children and researchers.San Nicolas, a saint of sailors, children and researchers.A Saint that transmutes experience into believes, human nature into stories. A Saint that speaks of the invisible and the voiceless A name that takes care of each other A word that sounds. „Esta dushi pa sinta den un mondi di dulcura schuchando cancionan di silencio blaachinan conversando di luz den un brisa di perfume di fruta mi amigo eterno banda mi semper naturalesa lo dicidi e salto pa lama of cielo define esta dushi tempo sirbi‟ San Nicolaas is an industrial city near the ocean. It was a  bustling company town, when Lago Oil and Transport Company opened its oil refinery in 1924 until 1985.In 1991 Coastal Corporation reopened the oil refinery until 1995.Valero in 2010 and Citco in 2017. San Nicolaas was named after a Mr. Nicolas van der Biest (1808–1873), who owned a big piece of the land there. Landowners were then addressed by their subordinates by their first names preceded by ‘Shon’ meaning ‘master’. So he was called ‘Shon Nicolas’, as was the area. It is thought that the change from Shon Nicolas to San Nicolaas was due to the influence of Spanish. (refr.Dr. J Hartog, Aruba’s historian and Aruba Tourism Authority). OM Saint Nicolas life’s story,The church of San Nicolò al Lido(Venice), hosts half of Nicolas’ relics.On 26 August 1071 Romanus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the  Battle of Manzikert. The battle ended in humiliating defeat and capture for Romanus. As a result, the Empire temporarily lost control over most of Asia Minor to the invading Seljuk Turks. The Byzantines would regain its control over Asia Minor during the reign of  Alexius I Comnenus (reigned 1081–1118). But early in his reign Myra was overtaken by the Turks. Nicholas’ tomb in Myra had become a popular place of pilgrimage. Because of the many wars and attacks in the region, some Christians were concerned that access to the tomb might become difficult. For both the religious and commercial advantages of a major pilgrimage site, the Italian cities of Venice and Bari vied to get the Nicholas relics.[3] Taking advantage of the confusion, in the spring of 1087, sailors from Bari in Apulia seized part of the remains of the saint from hisburial church in Myra, over the objections of the Greek Orthodox monks. Returning to Bari, they brought the remains with them and cared for them. The remains arrived on 9 May 1087. There are numerous variations of this account. In some versions those taking the relics are characterized as thieves or pirates, in others they are said to have taken them in response to avision wherein Saint Nicholas himself appeared and commanded that his relics be moved in order to preserve them from the impending Muslim conquest. Currently at Bari, there are two churches at his shrine, one Roman Catholic and one Orthodox.Sailors from Bari collected just half of Nicholas’ skeleton, leaving all the minor fragments in the grave. These were collected by Venetian sailors during the first crusade and brought to Venice, where a church to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors, was built on the Lido. This tradition was confirmed in two scientific investigations of the relics in Bari and Venice, which revealed that the relics in the two cities belong to the same skeleton. Many churches in Europe, Russia and the United States claim to possess small relics, such as a tooth or a fingers.

(2015.3015). Paarden baai. ‘Horse Bay’. Blue Horses. Art in public space, centrum of Oranjestad, Aruba. This name arrives from the Aruban and European trade commerce and economy in the 1700 Century. Aruba and Holland were into cattle exchange. Especially in horses trading. The Arubans bought their horses at the coast of Venezuela and Colombia together with the one hundred Indians that still lived near Forti Abow (where the peer of Paarden baai is now).The horses had enough space to live and gallop in the ranches (Ranchos) for their multiplication. International Horse export started in 1800 century and was one of the most important sources of livelihood for Aruba especially to the sugar countries. A Horse is by far one of the largest contributor to the enhancement of civilization. The 8 Sculptures represents strengths ‘nobility, grace, beauty and freedom. It represents Aruban collaboration with locals and international communities and its business trade world. Europe, South America, Caribbean islands and the Mediterranean. The Blue horses represents the important historical moment where the horses jumped from the ship deck into the Caribbean Ocean and swim to our Aruban Bay ‘Paarden baai’. This work is based on the story of  book‘travels in west indies’ (1829-1836), A trip to Aruba about 1825, on page 113 of the 2nd volume by Ds.G.B. Bosch. This project is subsidized by National and International foundations and prestigious private institutions. Mondriaan fund, Unoca, PBCFCG, TPEFund , GenAir, FE.

• 2015 Paardenbaai 2014 – Art curator and art critic, Renwick Heronimo Oranestad, Aruba.

Project  Paarden Baai  ‘Horse Bay”  2015 to present time. The theme of the Art work is a Tribute to ‘Paardenbaai’ (Horses Bay) Art in Public Space contributes to Culture, preserves historical and contemporary history of Community, Infrastructure, commerce, and local identity. We all share with the Tourists our appreciation and respect to this Development. It joins for a common purpose and a common action to the New down town Project. This name arrives from the Aruban and European trade commerce and economy in the 1700 Century.  Aruba and Holland were into cattle exchange. Especially in horses trading. The Arubans bought their horses at the coast of Venezuela and Colombia together with the one hundred Indians that still lived near Forti Abow (where the peer of Paarden baai is now). The horses had enough space to live and gallop in the ranches (Ranchos) for their multiplication. International Horse export started in 1800 century and was one of the most important sources of livelihood for Aruba especially to the sugar countries. A Horse is by far one of the largest contributor to the enhancement of civilization. The 8 Sculptures represents strengths ‘Nobility, Grace, Beauty and Freedom. It represents Aruban collaboration with locals and international communities and its business trade world. Europe, South America, Caribbean islands and the Mediterranean. The Blue horses represents the important historical moment where the horses jumped from the ship deck into the Caribbean Ocean and swim to our Aruban Bay ‘Paarden baai’.  At 6 strategic points – Down Town Oranjestad, there will be a horses installed. It will take 6 months to complete the whole project. With their different personalities and postures you can still see a united family. References: Biblioteca National Aruba, Hartoch. J . Aruba zoals het was en zoals het werd Hartoch .J. 1960, Het oude Fort van Aruba Willem. P. 1950-1960. De Nederlandse Antillen, A. H and Iglesia protestant Aruba in oude ansichten, Een reisje naar Aruba Dominee Bosch. Paarden baai’(2014-2015) is an extension of installation Paradise Park’ (2011-2014), a space falling in time, sea, ocean, life, love. Paradise Park is a dream-state, representing a space in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, connected to a hybrid globalized subject. Influenced on immigrants, heritage, and storytelling. At the same time, an allegory presenting cultural memories. The installation is inhabit with sculptures, crossing between horses, birds, fishes, plants, and human beings. Paradise Park archives metaphors that effects life, associated within a natural world, human association and bird resemblance. Species such as rotating flora and floating fauna  crossing in a solemn sound by Vangelis ‘ la petite Fille de La mer. Crossing over fiber sculptures surrounded with a character called ‘Sikkepit’. A space that unites anecdotes in deep sea water. A fantasy park where paradise energy settles time between continents, specifying a cultural and a visual language. My fascination with birds is seen in floating work’ Japanese Nightingale. A  sculpture mirroring  an inter familial hybrid, where the plants are sensitive and vulnerable and its leaves reaching out above the viewer, at the same time bordering arrangements. The Japanese nightingale is an aide-memoire, a bird that stretches, pitch and strain like a floor that has been danced upon. The exhibition highlights the senses that address the notion of time and space, and a relationship between the body, soul, and the material world. – Osaira Muyale Paardenbaai embodies an important part of the early history of Oranjestad; the natural harbor facilitated horse trade that dates back to the early days of Spanish colonization of Aruba. This trade in livestock and primarily horses was one of the key factors in the early development of commerce and later settlement of the town at the bay. During the following three centuries, the horse trade remained important for the island: for the Spanish period during conquest (1500’s), and later for the Dutch under the West Indian Company rule (1600’s and 1700’s) Aruba remained as what could be considered a ranch that facilitated the colonization projects. In the early Dutch Colonial period (1800’s & 1900’s) this role diminished and a shift to other industries and small scale farming became more important. Thus for over four centuries a great variety of livestock (primarily horses) was kept on the island where it remained accessible and could easily be transported to other destinations. Historic accounts relate that at times the herds would count up to thousands of horses, roaming the island. Testament to the foundational importance of this period is the simple fact that from this period onward and to this day, almost two hundred years after the official re-naming of Playa Caballos to Oranjestad (1824), the town at the bay is still referred to as Playa and its residents are still known as Playeros, in the local language Papiamento. The importance of the Caribbean Sea and the Horse Bay is also evident in the symbolic blue color of the horses, serving as a reminder of their voyage to and from the island. A deep blue color that still bathes their skin as if they seemingly just emerged from the bay pacing forward into town confronting us with the rich identity of our past. – Renwick Heronimo art curator

Paardenbaai –  mixed media, variable dimensions (2023.2015). 8 life size sculptures made of fibre and sikkens ral car paint, iron support. 2. meter x 80cm x 1.50.meter. Blue Horses: Art in public spaces, centrum Oranjestad, Aruba. www.paardenbaai.com

22.01.2015/Mondriaan Fonds Gehonoreerde plannen Bijdrage Opdrachtgeverschap. Fundacion Eterno( Oranjestad)- Playa caballos- Fundacion Eterno den de lokale overheid op Aruba geven opdrachten aan Kunstenaar Osaira Muyale. Muyale realiseert de installatie ‘Playa Caballos’ (Paardenbaai), bestaande uit een route van blauw gekleurde paardsculpturen vanaf het strand waar vanaf 1700 paarden arriveerden op het eiland voor de handelnaar de historische centyrum van Oranjestad.
www.mondriaanfonds.nl/gehonoreerd/gehonoreerde-plannen-bijdrage-opdrachtgeverschap/

 Paradise Park 2015 -2023
(2022. 2014) ‘Paradise Park’. Blue Horses. Crossing in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean sea. This installation is a research based on my family tree and descendants. The installation is at my studio, Oranjestad Aruba. Project Paarden baai’(2014-2015) is an extension of the installation Paradise Park’ (2011.2014). It is a space falling in time, sea, ocean, life and love. Paradise Park is a dream-state, representing a space in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, connected to a hybrid globalized subject. Influenced on immigrants, heritage, and storytelling. At the same time, an allegory presenting cultural memories. Paradise Park  is inhabited with sculptures of  crossing between horses, birds, fishes, plants, and human beings. Paradise Park archives metaphors that effects life, associated within a natural world, human association and bird resemblance. Species such as rotating flora and floating fauna  crossing in a solemn sound by Vangelis ‘ la petite Fille de La mer. Crossing over fiber sculptures surrounded with a character called ‘Sikkepit’. A space that unites anecdotes in deep sea water. A fantasy park where paradise frequencies settles time between continents, specifying a cultural and visual language. My fascination with birds is seen in floating work’ Japanese Nightingale. A  sculpture mirroring  an inter familial hybrid, where the plants are sensitive and vulnerable. Leaves reaching out above the viewer, at the same time bordering arrangements. The Japanese nightingale is a memory, a bird that stretches, pitch and strain like a floor. The exhibition highlights the senses that address the notion of time and space, and a relationship between the body, soul, and the material world. This project is subsidized by GenAir, Mondriaan Fonds (2011), Unoca, FE. Artwork installation ParadisePark – mixed media, variable dimensions. (2023.2015). plaster, blue acrylic, plastic plants, paper flowers, coconut, chicken wire, cloned and original mannequins body parts.  Installation space: 9 meter x 10 meter x 2.70 meters. Eleven sculptures of 1-2 meters x 80cm. 2meters x 60cm x 1.50.meters. Blue horses. Studio Osaira Muyale stadionweg 23, Oranjestad Aruba.

Paradise Park. Text by Renwick Heronimo (2015)
Once upon a time there was a magical place…a place where one could set the imagination free and relive the feelings locked in moments past…there we find ourselves… waiting patiently by the sea, listening… and peering into the blue shimmer…here we are… awaiting to catch a glimpse of the wonderful character once more…filled with love we patiently listen to learn of his magical endeavors across the river. Name. A park is a space where play is placed central in its success as a functioning space…a space where fantasy, emotion and imagination can be stimulated to enhance the experience of the everyday. A space of infinite possibilities that is promised as paradise…that mythical place where timeless harmony is offered—the Garden of Eden before the fall from grace—that place where humanity had the opportunity to be in perfect harmony with the world. Gate. As we cross the gate we enter into a place where the imagination has given shape and color to a place of wonder detached from the banality and logic of the everyday. Each level of penetration into this space accentuating the separation from the monotony of the everyday experience devoid of wonder and excitement, into a reality replenished with possibilities and new meaning. Door.Here we find ourselves at a door, full of excitement we wait to enter in to the interior space with a sense of adventure and trepidation. Blindfolded we enter…and surrender. Interior. It is once inside this space that the magnitude of this project reveals itself. This remarkable work by the artist Osaira Muyale allows the spectator to enter into a space where beauty, magic, emotion, and melancholy can be experienced. It is inside the rooms of this house called Paradise Park that one encounters this powerful sensorial experience. As one walks through these white spaces flooded with the ephemeral blue light figures appear that seem to be moving to an eternal rhythm. All of these figures are hybrids consisting of human as well as plant elements and are all colored blue…a deep blue hinting at the depths of the soul. This surprising experience is overwhelming in its layered effect where space, color, figures, movement and music are caught in an endless dance inviting us deeper into this house and deeper into the meaning of this work With Paradise Park the spectator is able to surrender to the beauty and magic of this place and allow the imagination and emotion to free itself of the constraints of reason and logic that seem to rule the everyday. Idea.Paradise Park offers one the opportunity to submerge oneself into the realm of the senses…where the subconscious mind is activated in order to decipher the stories and narratives that have manifested themselves within this space…a space so intimate in its conception that one feels as if it is within the mind, body and soul of this artist that one finds oneself. A space of reflection, a space of being, a space of believing and a space of feeling…Dance In Paradise Park we are able to be immersed in an experience that allows one to release the soul and partake in this dance of melancholy… floating as it were through this magical space where  our senses are activated to resurrect our feeling of beauty, memory, intuition, fantasy and emotions.  The art of Osaira Muyale
To understand the visual language of Muyale one must revisit some of her significant previous works. For example, it was with Mystery of The Soul that her visual language crystalized. The clarity with which she appropriated objets du Coeur from family collections to construct a narrative that was at once engaging as well as enigmatic. It was also during this solo exhibition at Eterno Studio Gallery in 1995, that the domestic attributes such as step ladders, picture frames, dolls, lamp posts, and linoleum flooring were appropriated to convey messages of domestic entrapment. It was this growing desperation and confrontation with the breakdown of communication that resulted in one of her most powerful multimedia installation, Silencio (Silence) at the Habana Biannual in 1997. Here she created a claustrophobic scene where hundreds of plaster cast ears were laid out on a metal bed frame and used to delineate the words “I am afraid” on the walls and were juxtaposed with a web of hair like threads reminiscent of cobwebs suspended from cattle hooks. To accentuate this apocalyptic scene installed inside one of the prison cells at the Castillo Del Moro fortification in Habana, a video was shown on a television monitor showing the artist struggling to catch her breath… A couple of years later this cycle of works reached its culmination with her highly personal multimedia installation iIlusion that was awarded with the grand price at the Dutch Caribbean contemporary art survey exhibition Arte 99 in Willemstad Curacao. With this striking installation the spectator is invited to enter into a space defined by a monumental wedding dress suspended on a metal carcass. To enter one had to step on and over the artist’s wedding pictures. Once inside one could see a video on a tv monitor suspended in the heart of this carcass, showing the artist falling out of the sky into a desolate landscape wearing a wedding dress. One can later see her walking outwards from a spiral installation, consisting of plaster cast ears and populated by family mementos and domestic articles, into the desolate landscape… A few years later it was the encounter with a water basin covered with natural overgrowth that triggered another performance and installation. It was at the history laden Kenepa Plantation in Curacao that triggered her imagination during the Watamula international artist workshop in the year 2000. Here the slave history of this indigo plantation as well as the encounter with this water basin resulted in a performance of ritualistic bathing with the indigo blue colored water of the basin. This installation was later installed at another plantation, namely Landhuis Bloemhof, in the bath house located in the middle of nature, and where the color blue (indigo) and water became an essential element indicative in this case of cleansing of traumatic history. The color blue had from this point on become a central and recurring component within the work of Muyale.
Kindred Spirits But it is not only through the analysis of her work that we can get a better understanding of this artist. When we look into the work of some seminal artists that have had a definitive role within the history of art we can also find some kindred spirits that give us insights into her narrative. One of the recurring elements that can be seen throughout her work is the influence by the Surrealist Movement. Especially the resonance with the work of female Surrealist artists such as, Remedios Varo and Dorothea Tanning is remarkable. With the work of Varo, it is the enigmatic visual language as well as the architectural spaces laden with psychological charge that seem to relate. And in the case of Tanning, it is the highly personal narrative and surrealist imagery that seem to relate. In Tanning’s own words we learn that “art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity”. But looking onward into the Modern and Postmodern movements we can also finds artist that resonate with Muyale. One of these is Louise Bourgeois, where we encounter a highly personal narrative and imagery tainted by family history and its profound implications on the psyche. And with the work of Kiki Smith, we encounter ideas of identity and the body as well as, physicality and mortality presented with a highly personal visual language incorporating flora and fauna/ human and animal, hybrid forms transformed by the imagination. But it is the color blue and the “Space within” that draws our attention to another remarkable artist, in this case a Flemish male artist Jan Faber, whose ideas of spatial atmosphere and quietude, as well as, the symbiosis between work and location achieved by this versatile artist resonates with Paradise Park. Conclusion .Throughout human history, art has had a fundamental role when dealing with the mysterious aspects of human experience. And it is through the release achieved by the creative process and the trans formative power of art that we are able to give meaning to human existence. With Paradise park the artist Osaira Muyale,  has confronted us with a haptic space that allows one to experience the subtle simplicity as well as the striking richness possible with human experience…all one has to do is enter. Subsidized by Unoca, GenAir, PBCFCG, FE, 

(2013.9- 2014.3)    Twee honderd Jaar  TROPISCH KONINKRIJK.
Museum de Fundatie presenteert vanaf december 2013 in zijn vestiging in Zwolle, Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, de tentoonstelling ‘Tropisch Koninkrijk’. Deze expositie, georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de viering ‘200 JAAR KONINKRIJK’ geeft een overzicht van de actuele beeldende kunst van de zes Caribische eilanden die tot het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden behoren: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St.Maarten, Saba en Sint Eustatius. ‘Tropisch Koninkrijk’ beslaat een groot gedeelte van het Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, dat momenteel gesloten is in verband met een markante uitbreiding en zal worden heropend in mei 2013. Naast de gehele nieuwbouw (twee keer 400 m²), die momenteel op het dak van het neo-klassieke gebouw verrijst, zijn verschillende zalen van de  19^de-eeuwse ‘oudbouw’ voor ‘Tropisch Koninkrijk’ gereserveerd. Het wordt de tweede grote expositie die te zien is in het heropende museum in de Zwolse binnenstad.  Gastconservator van ‘Tropisch Koninkrijk’ is de kunsthistoricus en publicist Maarten Jager. Hij brengt op dit overzicht de laatste ontwikkelingen op kunstgebied uit de Caribische gebiedsdelen van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden onder de aandacht. De meest representatieve vertegenwoordigers van de verschillende kunstdisciplines zijn op de expositie vertegenwoordigd. Het gaat om   internationaal georiënteerde Caribische, multiculturele schilder- en beeldhouwkunst, video, film, fotografie, keramiek en conceptuele kunst waaronder installaties. Hun kunst wordt met name in het Caribisch gebied zelf en in Midden-Amerika getoond, met name op de internationale biënnales van Santo Domingo en Cuba. Terwijl de expressieve kunst uit het Caribisch gebied veelal het lokale overstijgt, speelt de zoektocht  van de bewoners naar de eigen identiteit een belangrijke rol in hun kunst. Voor de hand ligt de Afrikaanse en Indiaanse erfenis van de Caribische kunstenaars. Daarnaast manifesteert zich binnen de mix van culturen de invloed van Europa, Midden-Amerika en zelfs die van het Nabije Oosten, want in het bijzonder kunstenaars op Aruba hebben Libanese voorouders. Naast de diaspora, zijn de geschiedenis van de eilanden, mythen en gebruiken, religie en de huidige sociaal-politieke situatie belangrijke thema’s in de kunst van de Cariben. De 19 kunstenaars op ‘Tropisch koninkrijk’ gebruiken de meest uiteenlopende materialen. Van traditionele ’dragers’ als verf en brons tot sumpiñas (doornenstruiken), plastic afval en ander afgedankt materiaal. Een aantal kunstenaars is in het Nederlandse museale circuit inmiddels bekend, onder wie Yubi Kirindongo. Hij nam vorig jaar deel aan de internationale beeldenroute ‘ArtZuid’ in Amsterdam. Een overzicht van het werk van David Bade was in 2010 te zien in het museum voor actuele kunst GEM (Den Haag). Van zijn hand is ook de metershoge sculptuur van een ridder, getiteld ‘Ins Blaue’, die in september 2012 een plaats kreeg in de beeldentuin van Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino. Dit najaar nemen verschillende prominente Curaçaoenaars en Arubanen deel aan de tentoonstelling ‘Caribbean: Crossroads of the World’  in New York. Middels 500 kunstwerken wordt vier eeuwen Caribische kunst belicht. Aan deze expositie in El Museo del Barrio, het Queens Museum of Art en het Studio Museum ging tien jaar onderzoek vooraf. ‘PK  Paarden Kracht  – HP Horse Power Als de verbinding sterk is, slaan de motoren aan en begint de vlieg te draaien. Paarden kracht  is een tentoonstelling die een modern  onderzoek beleeft  op het gebied van kunst en in kader van  een historisch moment. Een vereniging  waar Holland en Aruba  een ontmoeting plaatsen doormiddel van een hernieuwbare energie ‘ Paarden. Arubanen en Nederlanders handelden met paarden vanaf de 1700 eeuw,geleidelijk er meer immigranten zich vestigden  op het eiland, waaronder ook Oost-Europese Joden en Libanezen. Zij hadden de eerste particuliere ondernemingen in Aruba.Het werdt voorgesteld als een visuele reis door een variëteit van fantasierijke  werelden gecreëerd op creativiteit en expressieve  talen.Een hybridisatie – een kruising van kennis en openstellen  van productieve voorwaarden , overeenkomsten , medeleven en passie van kennis, concurrentievermogen, culturele innovatie en  efficiëntie bevordering. Het onderwerp van het werk  is een eerbetoon aan de ‘Paardenbaai’ Oranjestad Aruba ,waar de burger en de sociale koophandelaars hun  werelden begonnen.Het was een omarming  van Paarden  geest en energie  die zijn edele en kostbare  kracht en vrijheid  spreekt bij  een groot bijdragen en aan een  versterking van samenwerking  en een hybride  culturele beschaving .Het werk  wil met het publiek een reis maken door culturele contexten ,historische relaties en vooruitzichten. De PK werd geboren uit de allure van mijn prive-leven en studio.De instalatie bestaat uit een ruimte voorzien van kunstwerken, in de vorm van object trouve ‘, videowerk, fotografie ,sculpture en text met  inspiratie over persoonlijk en historisch vastgestelde  boeiende  verhalen . Aruba is een eiland met een rijke geschiedenis, bewoond door archeologische resten en architectonische monumenten. De ideale plek voor het onderzoeken van de relatie tussen erfgoed en het geheugen. Video -landschap inventaris, loop / verzameling digitale beelden 2002/2013,correctie en desoriëntatie. Object trouve ‘- Paradijs park, verzameling  1995-2013, opgeslagen erfgoed fotografie-kruispuzzel  , Een hybridisatie – een kruising van kennis en openstellen  van productieve voorwaarden , overeenkomsten , medeleven en passie van kennis, concurrentievermogen, culturele innovatie en  efficiëntie bevordering. sculptuur / hybride collectie – Cabai blouw, life size objet trouve ‘. Paarden kracht onderzoek beleeft  op het gebied van kunst en in kader van  een historisch moment. Een vereniging  waar Holland en Aruba  een ontmoeting plaatsen doormiddel van een hernieuwbare energie. Subsidized by Unoca, FE, PBCFCG, Mondriaan fund.

2012  im not white, not black, but blue. Encuentro Biennale Aruba place: Free Zone Aruba Curator : Dr. Jose Manuel Noceda Fernandez      

 Title: I m not white, not black, but blue Concept: Hybrid identity in post colonial Time 1. Titulo; min ta blanco, ni preto, pero blauw (papiamento) 2. Titel; ben niet wit, niet zwart maar blauw (dutch) 3. Titulo; no soy blanco, ni negro ,pero azul (espanol) 4. Title; I am not white, not black, but blue (english) 5. العنوان، لا أبيض، أسود  r، ولكن الزرقاء (arabic) 1. Contepto; Identidad hibrida,cu ken bo ta identifica bo mes? 2. Concept; Hybride identiteiten, ‘Wie vertegenwoordigt u eigenlijk?’ 3. Concepto; Identidades híbridas, “¿Quién te identificas más?” 4. Concept; Hybrid identities, “Who represents you?” 5.المفهوم: الهويات الهجين “الذي يمثل لك؟5” 1. Kiko ta indentidad?, e ta algo indefini y por ta crea confusion;e por ta un hancra,pero tambe un bruhamento.identidad ta algo dificil pa alcansa. 2. Wat is identiteit?, Het is on definieerbaar en kan verwarring scheppen; ze kan een houvast zijn, maar ook vervreemding betekenen. Identiteit is een ongrijpbaar iets. 3. ¿Qué es la identidad?, Es indefinible y puede ser confuso, pueden ser un faro, pero también significa la alienación. La identidad es algo difícil de alcanzar . 4. What is identity?, It is indefinable and can be confusing, they can be a beacon, but also alienation mean. Identity is an elusive something. 5.ما هو الهوية؟ أنها لا يمكن تعريفها ويمكن أن يكون مربكا، فإنها يمكن أن تكون منارة، ولكن يعني أيضا التغريب. الهوية.ي .يء بعيد المنال In the 19th century the word Hybrid was used to refer to a physiological phenomenon, is reactivated in the 20th century to describe a cultural one. The 1828 Webster defined a hybrid as ‘a mongrel or mule; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species’. It is only in the 1861 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) that it is first used to denote the crossing of people of different ‘cultures’, thus marking the acceptance of the possibility of human hybrids. This journey of my life, been born in Aruba, Dutch Caribbean with mixed cultures and heritage. Wondering for an identity. Does an identity exist ? The question is ,if i realize my identity will i be happy, shall the world be happier.What is happiness ? The 19th /20^th century debate on  hybridism is a central issue of debate in the social sciences today. The term ‘hybrid’ mixed cultures,was applied from botany to anthropology and was associated with both political and scientific speculations on ‘races’ as species or subspecies. The acknowledgment of the common humanity of all ‘races’ strengthened the separation between culture and nature as part and parcel of the project of Modernity. Been searching on identity for a while and my recent work ‘hybrid identity ‘I am not white, not black, but blue’, relates from a Post Colonial background. Living through the different years 1940.2020. New century 1210 and till today 2012. Been born in Aruba and lived my whole life here.While traveling allot especially for my work while growing up in between Cultural gabs.With a mixed complex background of  speaking and being Aruban, Dutch, Lebanese. Speaking Spanish, Papiamento, English and Dutch. Searching common ground. Always searching for my identity, with a co-result of understanding hope, happiness ,love, trust and peace. – a mix of ‘blood’ and culture.  The Post-colonial theory addresses the matters of post-colonial identity (cultural, national, ethnic), gender, race, and racism, and their interactions in the development of a post-colonial society, and of a post-colonial national identity; of how a colonized people (cultural) knowledge was used against them, in service of the colonizer’s interests and of how knowledge about the world is generated under specific socio-economic relations, between the powerful and the powerless. Identity politics comprise the perspectives of the colonial subjects, his and her creative resistance to the colonizer’s culture and how that resistance psychologically complicated the imperial-colony project for the Dutch Caribbean/ European man and woman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridity In my recent work there will be no common forms and no identity. A production of  humans, plants and animals together as one. Time and Memory is in charge of  the space. om Hybris and monsters by Miguel Vale de Almeida, ‘longing for one self Hybridism and Miscegenation colonial and postcolonial Portugal and more. The Dicionário Moraes of 1891 refers to hybrido as originating in the Greek hybris, defined as ‘an animal generated by two species. Irregular, anomalous, monstrous’. Hybridação is the ‘production of  hybrid plants or animals’ and hybridez is the ‘quality (…) of that which is composed of two different species in grammar it is used to refer to ‘words compounded from two different languages’. The same dictionary does not have an entry for miscigenação, but it does for mestiço, from the Latin mixtus, defined as ‘that which proceeds from parents of different race or species: e.g. among men (sic) the mulato, the cafusa, etc.; among animals, the mule etc. It is also used to refer to some grafted plants, e.g. rosas mestiças’. In the Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa (1977 [1952]), we learn that the Greek root hybris defines ‘excess, all that exceeds measure; pride, insolence; excessive ardor, impetuousness, exaltation; outrage, insult, offence; violence over woman or child; via the Latin hybrida to designate the product of the crossing between the sow and the wild boar; the child of parents from different regions or conditions, probably via the French hybride.’ In the same dictionary one can already find an entry for miscigenação, ‘from the English miscegenation, which came from the Latin miscere, ‘to mix’ + genus, ‘race’.After 1960 miscigenar is said to mean simultaneously ‘to procreate hybrids’and ‘to procreate mestiços’. Mestiço is said to come from the Castillian mistizo,which comes from the Late Latin mixticiu. As a complement to this list of definitions, we can also find that the word mulato comes from ‘…mulo (male ‘Longing for Oneself’ 183 mule) + –ato (as in cervato, lobato)’. According to literary examples used in the entry, one can infer (although not prove) that it is in the 1500s – the ‘Age of Discoveries’ – that the animal reference is replaced by a human one.If one uses the several entries in the Dicionário de Sinónimos from Porto Editora, a constellation of meanings connecting these different expressions can be traced: Híbrido: ambígeno, anómalo, irregular, mestiço, monstruoso (…) Mestiçagem: hibridismo, mestiçamento, miscigenação (…) Mestiço: bode, caboclo, cabra, carafuzo, cariboca, híbrido, mesclado, misto, mulato (…) Mulato: bode, cabra, cabranaz, cabrito, cabrocha, caporro, escuro, fulo, mestiço, moreno, mu, mulo, pardo, trigueiro (…) Mulata: cabrita, china, mestiça, mista, morocha, mula, trigueira (Dicionário de Sinónimos). Reference: Research on this theme hybridism identity, s.a. theory of Canclini and his work of  and life of Santiago, that he concludes that nationality of Puertorican is fruit of the asendance of Taina+European+African. The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining Identity-Based Service, Provision and Political Action, Debra C. Minkoff, University of Washington.“From miscegenation to Creole Identity: Portuguese Colonialism, Brazil, Cape Verde”, in Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. C. Stewart (ed.), Walnut Creek, CA, Left Coast Press, pp 108-132.2007. Miguel Vale de Almeida, ‘longing for one self Hybridism and Miscegenation colonial and postcolonial Portugal and much more. Contemporary rhetoric (is the art of discourse ) on hybrid  as part of globalization, trans- nationality, postcolonial diasporas, and multiculturalism – clashes with the reality of the return of ‘race’ within a cultural fundamentalism. Miguel Vale de Almeid.

2012 Salon 2, Flower Castle, Lisse, Netherlands – I never promised you a rose garden.
2010 Salon 1, popup La Linda and studiO- Silhouette
Curated  by Gijs Stork independent Art Curator Netherlands Angelo Tromp, Art People.
2003, 14th international electronic art festival /video  Brasil Associacao Video Brasil”  Brasil, Sao Paulo, Curated Chriz Cozier, Charlotte Elias CCA7. 

2002/2020 only beautiful words

Project only beautiful words is an ongoing light installation with text created by interviewing the local community. It investigates the relationship between light, space and memory. The project has been invited and installed in several locations. Aruba, Miami, New York, Lebanon, Nepal and Ecuador. It is a catalyst, suggesting public communication, community solidarity and collective consciousness. ’I always thought that every one is the same’- The immigrant Public Art  installation -light sign 2002-2003 L.G.Smith Blvd # 30, Oranjestad, Aruba Concept – The immigrant. If each human being is an individual with a complete network of senses of his own and a special combination of abilities, then the vision of each human being will be different, and the way in which each individual determines his life will be a unique interpretation. Captured in the complexity of civilization, man often loses sight of his human destination. The artist not only records the physical data of his own being, but has to act as an interpreter, a translator of human experience. Art functions as diagnosis, definition, and standard for human life. This work is a very important statement, because these words I have always heard through my life. These words come from my mother’s heart, she had always thought me these words, “everybody is the same” I have always lived these words. Until I have experienced and discovered through life that this is not the truth. I used the language English, as it is the first universal language. ’Yo siempre pense que cada uno es igual’- Numbers as tools Public Art  installation -light sign 2004 8th Bienal de Cuencar, Banco de Fomento, Ecuador Concept – Numbers are tools. Humanity’s fascination with numbers is ancient and complex. Our present relationship with numbers reveals both a highly developed tool and a highly developed user, working together to measure, create and predict both ourselves and the world around us. But like every symbiotic couple, the tool we would like to believe is separate from us (and thus objective) is actually an intricate reflection of our thoughts, interest, and capabilities. One intriguing result of this symbiosis is that the numeric system we use to describe patterns is actually used in a patterns fashion to describe. In learning how to abstract, we learn that all information is potentially expressive in numbers. One consequence of abstraction is that we must ignore the individual characteristics of entities we abstract. Apart from the existence of the numeric system and numbers, individual numbers have no meaning. Thus, our number system is seen as an objective tool-a tool that does not reflect human preference, emotion, or inconsistency. As such it is a tool used not to express ourselves, but is reserved only to describe the world around us. We do not write poetry with numbers, nor do we express our personal doubts or prejudices through them…except as our humanity is projected onto the emotionless toil of mathematical proof, ledger balances, or pedagogical exercises. Herein I return analyses to the public in the form of an interactive visualization, whose aim is to provoke awareness of one’s own numeric manifestations. I always thought that every one is the same’- New religion Public space installation ‘light sign ‘on building Studio Beirut- Gemmayzeh-Rue Gouraud Beyruoth Lebanon Teoretica, exposicion ‘iconofagia , Costa Rica Aug –Sept 2007 Photographer: Frederic Lezmi Concept- New religion, Light used with a purpose; ‘psycho linguistics’ a free word order language’ psychological and phonological language in public space. Where there is light, certainly there is darkness also. What is darkness? Absence of light. When you don’t recognize the light, you see Darkness. What is dark to you is bright to a cat or tiger or a bat. It’s all relative and when you have one, you have the other also. You cannot only have one side of the coin. But the moment that you know that darkness is part of the whole, it is not darkness anymore. The real darkness lies in your ignorance of what it is. Your not knowing is the darkness. The minute you know, you respect both sides, and it’s no longer darkness. Don’t we respect both day and night? We want both day and night. Night makes the day complete. Pleasure and pain are also two sides of the same coin. If you only want pleasure and hate pain, you become miserable. After one, the other is certain to follow. When it comes and you don’t want it, you fight it. Instead, we must recognize that life is like that. If someone is nice to you and you demand that he or she must always be nice to you, always respect you, then you are seeing only one side. If the other side comes, you deny the person, you hate the person. You should know that the other side will also be there. Love that person for the other side also. Then you are in a different light where there is no darkness at all. That is what you call collective light. That light is not like the light that casts a shadow, that light is a shadow less light. Once you go into that state, you will see the light and darkness, but you respect them both. I always thought that every one is the same’- New language Public space installation /neon sign Nepal, Siddhartha Art gallery 2009 Exhibition The Myth and the Reality’ Concept: New language, How many spaces are in between a sentence How many years does it take to see what you want to listen How many hours does a day have to carry all the invisible How many minutes does it take to explode How many seconds are there in a lifetime “The title for my installation ‘I always thought that every one is the same’ is self-explanatory, love rarely comes easily and if it does, it usually goes quite quickly and there is death, and loss, which at some point in our lives we all have to deal with. I’m constantly fighting with the notion of  love. Always searching the gab that love can fill when it‘s not there. I have to constantly remind myself that no matter what the circumstances, love is not a feeling but a decision. The goal of my work is to re-live the past and today’s emotions. My Art is the space between my language and the invisible world. It allows me to re=experience fear, to give it a physicality. That the moment has gone by, but the space is filled with visual memoirs. I am saying in my work that what I could not make out in the past, allows me to re-experience the past, to see the past in its objective and realistic proportions. That fear is a passive state and the goal is to be active and in control, to be alive to deal with here and today. As my brain experiences the duality of subjective and objective, my sense of beauty swings between the two, space and language. I am torn between the two, and  I have learned to accept them both. Through the years this space has been transforming in shapes and forms. This space has allowed me to see and understand the unable mess to make myself loved. I am still motivated by an attraction to ‘the other’ which is a mysterious beauty, it allowed me to reach the level of my soul and spirit. As per today I can make this statement, I need Art like I need God (Tracey Emin). Love is in the Air – Moving energy Public space installation / Light-sign on building Invitation project AIR ART  by the Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) Queen Beatrix International Airport Aruba 2012 The Airport is the official door, to enter and leave Aruba. Once I worked at the airport because my family is into the Airport business. As I have noticed that the energy at the airport is higher than at another place, especially working with small deadlines tasks, I realized that it was not a place where I could work for long as my family does. That’s because the level of pressure is to high and my adrenaline was in a constant overdrive. When you are working on the ground it gave me the same feeling I was going to travel in an airplane. It give that sensation of an unbalanced sensation. I thought well I am going to make something that will make me feel or will make someone who may feel also this unbalanced sensation a better or more peaceful energy. At this same moment I thought of Love , love in the Air , love must be in the Air, Love is in the Air. Love is the only feeling that produce immediate peace. As for my surprise this text has a moving version to. Love is the Air song by Barry White. So instead of feeling fear going in the sky, you will see this text and the love will stay with you Moving into your mind body and soul. Artwork ‘Abo ta Ami’

 2014 April 18, 2014 – September 17, 2014 2012 Caribbean Crossroads of the World PAMM Perez Art museum Miami ,1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Museo Del Barrio, Manhattan Fifth ave, New York Project Caribbean Crossroads of  the World Curated by Elvis Fuentes and Susy del Valle www.caribbeancrossroads.org Invitation by Tobias Ostrander Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Following credit line-Curatorial Team Maria Elena Ortiz Curatorial Assistant, Elvis Fuentes Programmer Curator  Crossroads Project, Oriol Tarridas Photography, Installation view Photo by Orial Tarridas Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Naomi Patterson, Senior Registrar Renwick Heronimo, logistics outsourcing from Washington to Miami, Osaira Muyale Aruban Artist The theme of  Patriot Acts studies. ”Cultural Identity; Patriot Acts studies the idea that artists and intellectuals in the Caribbean were instrumental in the creation of the identity, both visual and conceptual, of the young Caribbean nations, which often pitted traditional, academic aesthetics against the “authentic,” indigenous and African past of the region. Artist Project; Only Beautiful Words 2002-2014. Light Text/Poem in Native Language ‘Papiamento’ written in 2011.Concept: How language can transform space and time and influence Cultural identities by several different factors such as religion, ancestry, skin color, language, class, education, profession, skill, family and political attitudes. These factors contribute to the development of ones identity. Language develops from the wants of the people who tend to spread themselves in a common given location over a particular period of time. This tends to allow people to share a way of life that generally links individuals in a certain culture that is identified by the people of that group. The affluence of communication that comes along with sharing a language promotes connections and roots to ancestors and cultural histories. Language also includes the way people speak with peers, family members, authority figures, and strangers. Language learning process can also be affected by cultural identity via the understanding of specific words, and the preference for specific words when learning and using a second language. Since many aspects of a person’s cultural identity can be changed, such as citizenship or influence from outside cultures can change cultural traditions, language is a main component of cultural identity. Cultural identity is the process of exploration and questioning about one’s culture in order to learn more about it and to understand the implications of  being in that culture.” During this stage a person will begin to question why they hold their beliefs and compare it to the beliefs of other cultures. Such as being born in Aruba and have a Dutch Passport and heritage. For some this stage may arise from a turning point in their life or from a growing awareness of other cultures. This stage is characterized by growing awareness in social and political forums and a desire to learn more about culture. This can be expressed by asking family members questions about tradition, history ,past , background. This stage might have an emotional component as well. Cultural identity achievement: “is characterized by a clear, confident acceptance of oneself and an internalization of one’s cultural identity.” In this stage i allow the acceptance of  my cultural identity and how to deal with hybrid stereotypes, any discrimination and approach negative perceptions, s.a. rejection, repulse, disavowal or non-acceptance. This usually leads to an increase in self-confidence and positive psychological adjustment. For more infomation search: www.pamm.org Abo ta ami.You are me Abo Ta  e tempo cu ta surpasa mi bista You are the time that surpasses my vision Abo ta e aire cu ta sostene mi curpa You are the air that sustains my body Abo ta e brisa cu ta rondona mi alma You are the breeze that surrounds my soul Abo ta e awa cu ta corre den mi wowo You are the water that  runs in my eyes Abo ta e color cu ta carisia mi pensamento You are the color that caresses my thoughts Abo ta e luz cu ta brilla tur momento You are the light that shines all moment Abo ta e alegria cu conocemi You are the happiness  that knows me Abo ta ami You are me

2003 V Caribbean Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo curated by Marianna de Tolentino and Sara Hermann.
2001 TenT Gallery Rotterdam, Holland. Curated by Dr. Adi Martis, Jennifer smith, Thomas Mejier Zu Schlochteren project Beeldende Kunst van de Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba.

2000 Watamula

21 Sept-12 Oct 2000, “Watamula” Instalation on Curacao. Title, ‘bathing me, bathing you’/ The blue reservoir Medium, installation-video/performance-objet trouve’ Size, 8 x 7 x 3 meter – 37 minutes By choosing the water reservoir which was used to ferment indigo plant ,I expressed the use of water as a metaphor for soothing the past, washing away the pain, and to understand life. Life is like a theater script but with real individuals. When a backpack was found in the reservoir with stolen belongings of a homosexual mixed race couple (including intimate photographs). Their life crossed path with mine and we were bound together by fate and by this location with all its historical connotation. This event of real life reflects the view of art as an agent of revelation, where history and architecture becomes the symbolic mediator. The process that got an additional boost by this change encounter evolved into a ritualistic bath where I submerged myself in my needs to go beyond the limits beyond my fears and to submerge myself in the exchange of unconditional love.It was a declaration of love for my white homosexual friend and the submission to the sensual love of my black friend. By using myself as a medium for love to be transmitted unconditionally I learned a great lesson of love which is selflessness.  A letter to Sharlon. As the days went by, You listened like a lullaby, Your tender words, Your tender eyes, O,God  I said, This is a friend goodnight, Your skin so dye, My eyes closed shy,  I will never forget, and tell you, Good by, For the silence, You shared, The trust so divine, Me for the lessons y shared, i wished,You, for the love to forgive, Thank you my friend, You showed me now, You showed me how. A letter to Wilson. As the days went by, You were like an angel, Walking in the sky, So, beautiful, so divine O, God , I said, This is a friend goodnight, Your skin so pale, My heart a butterfly, I only wished I lonely cried, I only thought, I hoped and tried, You be the one, Another time, May life forgive May life can give, one soul, one mind, one body, A wish, Thank you my friend, You showed me now, You showed me how.

1998  To my friend no.11 Lips, Sticks & Marks, Spiral Gallery Barbados
Curated by visual artists, Annelee Davis and Jocelyn Gardner. Art Foundry Trinidad curated by visual artists, Jocelyn Gardner, Annelee Davis and Irene Shaw.-

1997   Silence

Biennale de Havana Cuba,  Instalation ‘SILENCE’. by Gijs Stork, M.A., Art Historian and Critic, Director. An ear is an emotionally charged symbol. Because we receive the Word through the ear.  It often represents Faith. In Christian semantics, the ear will often be the symbol by which the Holy Ghost, the dove, makes the announcement to the Holy Virgin. In this case, the ear is the part of the body that makes Maria aware of her unspeakable happiness. Furthermore, it also symbolizes the woman as well as daughters. Consequently, with this the ear gets an erotic connotation as well. A magnificent sound has an immediate effect on each part of the body as a sensory experience and yet the ear in Osaira Muyale’s oeuvre  only remains are requisite of the imaginative power. It has a metaphorical meaning, which not only gives cause for observation, but also for deeper associations. Here too, it is clear that is no such a thing as the key to knowing the underlying meaning. The function of intuition is more important. An ear and listening is a mayor theme in contemporary art. Contrary to the works of, say, jan Fabre at Documenta IX and Douglas Gordon at the exposition Entre- Deux in Brussels, Osaira does not attempt to hear the unknown or the “outside”, but the tales of the public. She attempts to let the inner voice speak; to make the suppressed feelings revive. It is not surprising that listening has become a theme in a time in which the hectic life makes that nobody actually has the time to listen anymore. There are more and more souls crying and wandering in the wilderness of new media, fast television footage and 1.000 megabeats per second. Osaira Muyale listens indirectly to the people of Cuba. A work of art has to make the 1.000 voices of silent grief sound. And so, within the theme of the biennale “The individual and his memory”,  Muyale Performs an act in which she considers the public as an individual, and wants to let the memory of a past speak. But speaking takes the form of listening, listening to the inner voice. A descent in your own deepest inner self,  from where the voice of the unconscious will speak. Therefore, the ear is also comparable with the eye. Both are the carriers of the experience to the memory. For Osaira Muyale personal experience and memory is the most important theme in her works. The experience she tries to concretize and communicate to the spectator, by means of images that thrust themselves upon her in fragments. Experience of life she tries to translate into sculptures. Art that is not about art, or creating art, art not created to please, it rather repels, but art about the experience of the artist, art about life itself. They are translated into sculptures and presented as such. Here too, the fact that the dove and the ear were brought together in early symbolism, can be considered special; the dove brings the message, but also peace.  A sign that gives the ear a positive meaning.  A meaning also needed to survive, with all the experiences, positive or negative, a human being goes through in his life.

1995/2020 Silhouette

An ongoing project that delves into the psychology of repeating mechanism and triggers personal memory. It invites the audience to fill the gap between visualizing a traditional dance and a dance that has no tradition. 13 august 2007 .‘Silhouette’. Story by Osaira Muyale, Beiruth Lebanon, Arriving at the G,auille airport in France, I start wondering what is it that  i am looking for in Beirut ,Lebanon ,the pearl of the eastern hemisphere , as it has been calling me all along, from deep within. Serhel, the elevated wall.where Alexander Muyale and maria la Tuff joined their life together and forever. This is where Antonio Muyale la tuff was born, Aruba an island in the Caribbean sea. Watching the tequila sign, one morning 8;59 am ,as I jumped out of my red bed to start writing on this beautiful journey of love. Why a journey of love ,I ask myself, I do not know either. i just write as my red finger nails watch my eyes writing on a with piece of paper. a green tree ,in the middle of a red line and white borders. scratching my feet ,that have not been bitten by moskitos. also wondering how could these walls have been painted ,as the ceiling is very high, maybe 10 meters. half through the room, with a furnished mantra pattern tile, looking outside in this with finished wooden window,where mr. Habash just left his balcony to go back inside .tequila ,yes that’s what is hanging out of my room window. beer is what I drank last night at express bar, a place where you can not move your body,only your eyes.my eyes kept rolling to all the corners of a small long space filled with fog and cigarettes, wet lips ,kissing each other,as if there was no end neither mouth. Going back at my room at 1;00.i thought hm..it’s going to be hot again,after taking a bath and drops up my body ,I could feel how there was no end of staying wet .as I lay in bed,I thought just as last night, it will get cooler ,and in the morning when I wake up ,I can reinforce this statement, because I’am  not sweaty any more and there exists this cool air but only in the morning. When I wake up, my body starts to feel cooler, as the breeze starts to get accustomed with the room temperature. Noisy in the street,cars,hunks,talking and screaming people ,serene’s,hard engines,going up and down,.it’s morning ,a day to start,a party ago.it’s fry day! I see that everyone has a split unit hanging on the wall.i wish I could feel this breeze of coolness soon. I am going to make coffee and wanted to visit the metadox church,in the street,until 12 it’s open.

1995/2020 Surrounded by Circles

An ongoing project that collect circles, confront ideas on conceptual and abstract perspectives. It imply movement and symbolize the cycle of time and of everything that moves. It represents the notion of totality, wholeness, original perfection, the self, the infinite, eternity, timelessness, all cycle movement. ‘CIRCLE’ collection 2004-2005 consists of paintings, mixed media creations, multi media installations and video work. It address psychological and emotional vulnerabilities in a post- modern context. A circle is an universal symbol with extensive meaning. It represent the notion of totality, wholeness, original perfection, the self, the infinite, eternity, timelessness, all cyclic movement God ( ‘God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere’ Hermes Trismegistus). As the sun, it is masculine power, as the soul and as encircling waters it is the feminine maternal principle. ”It implies an idea of movement and symbolizes the cycle of time ,the perpetual motion of everything that moves ,the planets’ journey around the sun (the circles of the zodiac), the great rhythm of the universe. The circle is also zero in our system of numbering and symbolizes potential, or the embryo .It has a magical value as a protective agent, and indicates the end of the process of individuation, of striving towards a psychic wholeness and self-realization Spectrum. prof.dr Hans Biedermann. CIRCLES /Project : a room for tree. dialogue between heaven and earth. osaira Muyale in conversation. To believe and understand that this is a journey a process and not a destination a receiving of a final solution winning a award certificate. I appreciate and live the chance and change in my hereditary history custom. If the heritage, the culture, the system I live in does not work, I have to make my new culture. Because of this journey , I have the opportunity to explore myself and  try to understand the unknown, to continue with the known and thank God for the opportunity of conclusion. I believe that the universal system, the way it works and the way it is going ,depends on each of us. I am carrying the universe in my brain, heart and soul. If I can carry a free mind, a free soul  and a free heart ,I will work with free hands. No system can function if I have  to live with patterns that will not and is not giving a result, I will stay unhappy. And therefore not understanding “time and space”   I can see it in all the universal system I am living in. With all the modern patterns  humankind has not become better, all the advancements in technology, education, religion, government. It has all the same way of searching, following a system or a priest, president, doctor, teacher, guru, father, mother,….. Believing that only learning the external part of the humankind in this earthly life and not the internal soul of this galaxy. The living emotional space that is not being understood, it is considered war of the brain , because humanity don’t understand the difference between outer and inner search of the being. We has to have a constant control of our heart, emotions. Love is considered out of the ordinary, being separated is loyalty and being honest is not progress. I have to be strong all the time, understand and accept whatever I don’t believe in, the rules and regulation of modern decadence. Believing that through independence and communication you can get to a whole new system and that is the system of your own believe. Making a conclusion of this real/unreal life and then from there on try to understand and learn from it. Learn like you have never been hurt. From there on you can follow a system with a better view of mind and spirit. With a open  heart  that understands and receive and share the knowledge and wisdom  of giving love. The most important things of life I have to find out for myself, and that is through time and vision, through accepting my  faults and why I do them. I did not learn in school how to deal with  love, why… That’s why I believe that the bureaucratic universal systems is loosing its contact with human force. Force of the spirit, force of eternal love. If I could understand this from the moment I was born, there would be a better space for the unknown, for the not acceptance of the evil, because evil is a simple word for fear that has been transformed in anger in our mind, heart and soul. This eternal force called love can let me understand my senses, and why I use them unconditionally with awareness. In a not trusting society there exist a system of not seeing, not hearing, not smelling, not tasting, not feeling not communicating and therefore not loving. And therefore no relationship  with  another. Listen to yourself ,to listen to another. The circles of life- Seek and you will find, clean ,look, investigate, understand, try, accept, forgive, give, and love eternal love , that goes from eternity to eternity. “Circle  within” It is not about winning, it, s about opening up It is feeling  free of the mind, soul and heart It is about sharing, inspiring, giving It is about unconditional love It is about loving yourself It is about loving God It is about loving your worse enemy It is about understanding evil It is about loving everything It is about trusting yourself It is about trusting others It is about using your brain It is about patience It is about communicating It is about cleansing your soul It is about respect It is about closer to one another It is  about discipline It is about sweat and tears to reach for the golden stars in heaven It is about beautiful words. OM

1995/2020 Red work (selection)

Project God-Dog Titulo, “When I woke up, you were gone”/ film 3 min,  projecto God-doG   osaira muyale den conversacion ; Mi interes den arte ta solamente arte cu por cambia un ideologia di un sociedad. E ego ta e obstaculo mas grandi pa e artista. Esaki ta e morto pa e artista y su trabow. Arte cu tin  solamente valor estetico ta incompleto. Den mi opinion e artista mester ta responsabel  y no por ta simplemente contento cu e valor estetico. Un trabao di arte ta pa sirbie sociedad. Esey ta un rol. Mi ta kere ta hopi egoista di un artista cu ta sinta den su studio y no ta worry cu kiko ta pasando rond di nan..bo no ta traha arte solamente pabo mes, claro cu esaki ta parti di dje, pero asina cu un trabao a termina e ta parti di collectividad. Esaki ta nos responsabilidad. Mi trabao ta basa riba mi identidad, cu ta uno mixto, cu esaki mi kiermen ta cu, mi tata ta nasi na Aruba, desendiente Lebanes y Spano,  mi mama ta nasi na Hulanda y ta biba na Aruba. Ami ta nasi na Aruba. Tur dos mi mayornan ta  katholico di nacemento. Mi tata pafor di misa, mi mama paden di misa. Asina ta cu for di mucha mi mente tawata tin ideanan mixto. For di mucha mi ta admira justicia y bunitesa , mi tata tawata un architecto y mi bisawelo pa parti di mi mama  tawata un escultor. Asina ta e manera  di pensa den nos famia tawata cu hopi espacio y libertad mental y cu un disiplina  katholico orthodox. Mi a cuminsa cu theather y a bai un academia di arte den exterior y a sigiu cu pintamento, ora pintura no a satisfasemi completo mas, mi a cuminsa cu installacion y a cuminsa i husa mi curpa como material den instalation. Esaki no tawata facil pa splica of comprende na Aruba. Pintura tawata e medio mas usa es momento den arte na Aruba. Un obstaculo grandi cu mi ta tin ora mi a yega exterior tawata mi libertad, mi a wordo lanta cu hopi restriction. E storia cu e titulo GoddoG ta, un storia cu  ta basa riba e  responsabilidad y protection di cada individuo pa bo Ser. Ser humano y Ser spiritual. Un ta pasobra bo ta biba riba un pais cu tin un systema democratico, kiermen cu bo tin derecho pa hasi loque bo mente humano ta pensa y unta pasobra nos pais ta democratico kiermen cu e universo ta democratico. Unta pasobra abo tin un ideologia kiermen cu un otro tin pa asepte y unta pasobra un otro tin un ideologia abo mester asepte. Awor, si ta cu tur e differente opinionan aki, ta rekeri un cos y esey ta  comunication verbal riba e nivel cu cada persona por comprende, un ideologia cu pa e momento ey por ta un diferente opinion. No ta e diferencia di opinion mester ta e obstaculo den un systema, ta e responsabilidad di por scucha otro y comprende otro su manera di pensa, pa por yuda orto cu e manera di pensa ey y pa  yuda otro di bai dilanti cu e resultado di e opinionnan cu mester a trece un solution mutuo. Sino bo ta hana cu tin destruction enves di construction. un forma pa  trece un solution permanente tin mas calidad y bondad cu un solution temporal. Comunication verbal ta di suma importancia, pa por comprende kiko ta pasando, si tin desunion rabia of cualkier sentimiento emoional incorrecto, ta pasobra e sintimiento no a wordo verbalisa of comunica debidamente y honestamente. Si cada individuo kier hiba su Ser , su pais y su universo  dilanti, mester por comunica esaki riba un manera honesto y bunita. Un cacho ta e bestia mas fiel na su amigo, e ta apreciabo ,e ta stimabo y nunca e lo lagabo na caya. Mi mes tin tres cacho. Coco Chanel, Gucci y Tanka.